Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

As a general rule, those truths which we highly relish, and which shed a degree of practical light upon the things which we are required to give up for God, are leadings of Divine grace, which we should follow without hesitation.

Francois Fenelon

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

Johann von Goethe

He's dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end.

Hugo Pratt

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

Davy Crockett

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master. When we disobey the latter we are punished, when we disobey the former we are fools.

Blaise Pascal

When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: He trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.

William Shakespeare

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

W. Somerset Maugham

The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.

Blaise Pascal

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

Flora Edwards

I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.

Homer

People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.

Lenny Kravitz

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.

Richard Russo